The Great Kitchen Experiment Part II––Help!

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It's that time again. The time for the "Great Kitchen Experiment Part II". But I'm really going to need your help with this one. You see, after my usual Sunday grocery shopping trip when both my cupboard and freezer doors wouldn't shut, I realized that I was guilty of doing it again. "It" being mindless shopping without taking inventory. The cupboards are stuffed to the gills with "staples" that have seem to have given birth and multiplied over the last month or so. I think that I have enough frozen vegetables and waffles in my freezer to feed any classroom for the next week straight.

After throwing away a lot of uneaten fruit that had rotted, vegetables that were starting to resemble Santa Claus and leftovers that were long forgotten and only long ago safe to eat, a huge wave of guilt washed over me. Who did I think I was, wasting food like that? Me, who is writing blogs about fighting debt and being financially responsible just threw away about five pounds of un-eaten food. I was highly ashamed.

To repent, I'm going to skip grocery shopping for the next two weeks (toilet paper doesn't count!) and I'm going to once again, use only what I have to make three meals per day for my family. Breakfasts won't be a problem; like I said, there are the waffles. I also have four full boxes of cereal. Lunch won't be either because I always bring leftovers from dinner to work. I also have two or three cans of soup in the pantry.

Here's where you come in. Can you help me with dinners? I have to say, I'm fresh out of creative ideas and sometimes feel that when it comes to cooking I've lost my creativity altogether.